Know Your Mind by Daniel Freeman

Author:Daniel Freeman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781402783173
Publisher: Sterling
Published: 2010-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

Problems with depression: a personal account

I became depressed a couple of months after a messy breakup. Shortly after everyone had been complimenting me on how well I was coping, I ground to a halt. I stopped going to work. I stopped seeing friends. I wouldn’t even answer the phone. I hardly ate anything. I’d burst into tears for no apparent reason. Most of the time—even during the day, while the sun streamed through the curtains—I stayed in bed. But I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t read. I couldn’t even bear to watch TV or listen to the radio. Instead I spent hours obsessing over the past. Life seemed incredibly bleak—like there was nothing at all to look forward to. I wasn’t suicidal, but I did think I’d be better off dead. It was only because being absent from work required a medical certification that I plucked up the courage to see my physician, but just ten minutes talking to her made all the difference.

—Kevin, age 28

Mood music

Music can have a powerful effect on mood. Psychologists have done a great deal of research in this area, and the evidence is clear: Sad music lowers our mood; happy music cheers us up.

It’s definitely worth making a compilation CD for when you’re feeling down or stressed. But what should you put on it? Well, you may want to avoid Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”—voted the saddest piece of music by listeners to BBC Radio 4’s Today program. When the mental health charity Mind carried out a similar survey, these were the songs that had the biggest emotional effect on people:

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